Friday, January 15, 2010

NARS Purple Rain. I was complaining on Twitter the other day about how disappointed I was in NARS Purple Rain... but I completely take back everything I said. It is darker than I had anticipated based on all the ads and promo pics I saw for it, but that's okay now! Once I put it on my nails I knew how wrong I was. This is awesome. So awesome. I haven't been impressed by any NARS polish since they discontinued all the good colors, but this one redeems them in my eyes. This is a rich and complex deep red toned purple with tons of red and blue shimmer. It is very shimmery and very gorgeous. My picture pulls it more blue than it looks in real life... But you knew that, because you always read what I write under the pictures so you know about my camera and purple, right? Right?!?! (HA!) So yeah, it's definitely a red-toned purple in real life. Not *too* far off from my picture. It's how it looks in the bottle in these pictures.

The first thing that came to my mind was that it looks like Illamasqua Baptiste... which it kinda does a little but they're far off enough to warrant owning both.

Boy am I glad I came and looked at your photos even though I saw your Tweet about this! Haha! This is stunning, and your pictures are great! I often wonder how much of my blathering folks read, too, by the way.

Alright. Finally a polish named Purple Rain Prince would approve of! While I can't really speak for Prince personally, I would say that much of his wardrobe would coordinate with the Nars version of Purple Rain.

Amy@cafemakup wrote the post I had in my head! Literally gasped! it is so gorge and I want it, although the likelihood of their being a Nars stockist in West Yorkshire is about, ooh, zilch! (but if anyone knows otherwise please let me know!)